Senior Software Development Manager

Amazon's Access Management Services (AMS) organization builds and operates the authorization backbone for all of Amazon. Our services govern who and what can access resources across the company from group membership and ownership to policy evaluation and contingent authorization, to access lifecycle management. We secure authorization decisions at Amazon scale.

Security is our top priority, but we also obsess over availability, latency, and cost-to-serve for the teams that depend on us. AMS is looking for an experienced Senior Software Development Manager to lead the organization that builds, owns, and operates Amazon's attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy services. Your team defines how authorization policies are expressed, evaluated, and enforced across Amazon making access decisions for every service and workflow that touches protected resources.

You will own Tier-1 services foundational to Amazon's operations while driving a shift from manual, team-by-team policy configuration toward intelligent defaults and automated guardrails that reduce friction for builders without compromising the security bar. This is a hard problem ABAC policy must be expressive enough to cover wildly diverse authorization use cases, reliable enough to bear deep operational dependencies, and performant enough to operate at a scale where even small design choices have outsized blast radius.

This team is in the middle of a fundamental acceleration. The rise of agentic AI across Amazon is reshaping how authorization works and how we build it. We're applying generative AI to compress our own development cycles, transform how we operate Tier-1 services, and deliver new AI-native authorization capabilities that let Amazon's businesses safely adopt agentic workloads at speed.

If you love transforming legacy processes, building high-performing teams, and operating at a pace that matches the moment, this role will fit. You'll have substantial visibility with senior executives and the mandate to move fast. You'll need strong instincts for security outcomes paired with a passion for customer experience and the technical depth to guide and raise the bar on principal engineers, SDEs, and development managers on system design, incremental delivery, and operational excellence.

This role invents and delivers for internal customers and is inherently cross-functional and requires the ability to think big and collaborate with others as you work closely with teams across engineering, operations, finance, and security. We are looking for a critical thinker who thrives on solving challenges in partnership with teams across Amazon.